Figure Skating

Here's our sports bucket lists, not including Chicago venues or events, in no particular order. PLACES TO SEE Joe Louis Arena. It's old, it's run down, it smells of stale beer and it's a terrific place to watch a hockey game. History (and sometimes other unknown substances) ooze from the rafters, but it's a must-stop for hockey fans. Scheduled to be demolished in 2017, so what are you waiting for? Hinkle Fieldhouse. You might find yourself scanning the crowd for Jimmy Chitwood or hoping points are scored on a peach basket. The renovated Hinkle now has modern amenities to match its priceless sightlines. AT&T Stadium. Everything has to be bigger in Texas. So...

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Revelers at Allentown's New Year's Eve celebration were greeted with something slick and new in Center Square across from the new PPL Center arena on Hamilton Street — a 40-by-80-foot ice skating rink.
The rink, which is made of a synthetic ice, is one...

— She staggered onto the 2014 Olympic team, justifiably earning a place under rules that allowed selection as something of a career achievement award. Her performance in Sochi would be remembered less for its quality or finish - seventh - than the look of...

The spotlight shines down on a winter wonderland on the stage of the State Theatre in Easton. Snow falls lightly. Skaters dressed in white glide, leap and twirl gracefully across the ice.
Yes, ice, covering the State Theatre stage. Sort of.
The...

Stamford, Conn, - February 5, 2014 - NBCUniversal’s coverage of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi begins Thursday, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC with men’s and women’s snowboard slopestyle and team figure skating, which are both debuting in the Olympics for the fir

The Arts Academy Charter School has appointed William Fitzpatrick as executive director and Jan Labellarte as principal. Fitzpatrick had a 33-year management career with the Steel Export Corporation. During that time, he also served in a leadership capacity fo

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Milwaukee has been awarded Skate America in 2015, the first time the city will host a major international figure skating event.
The competition will take place Oct. 22-25, the first of six stops on the International Skating...

Jason Brown delivered.
So did Gracie Gold and Ashley Wagner.
The result was the United States kept the maximum three singles spots in both the men’s and women’s events at the World Figure Skating Championships, an accomplishment that takes on more...

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What makes a woman crazy about an automobile? I can only speak for myself. I grew up in the country surrounded by a dairy farm and five brothers. To me, cars were freedom. When I was 14 years old, as an exchange student...

Jean Jennings
JeanKnowsCars.com
What makes a woman crazy about an automobile? I can only speak for myself. I grew up in the country surrounded by a dairy farm and five brothers. To me, cars were freedom. When I was 14 years old, as an exchange student...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Hot rivalry between Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold in U.S. women's figure skating?
Not Saturday night.
Not with the peerless performance Wagner delivered to win her third national title in the last four years, one that gave her an...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It was in this arena at the U.S. Championships four years ago that Jason Brown first showed the appeal that made him a crowd favorite well before he became one of the top figure skaters in the country.
Then just 16, his artistically...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — She staggered onto the 2014 Olympic team, justifiably earning a place under rules that allowed selection as something of a career achievement award. Her performance in Sochi would be remembered less for its quality or finish — seventh —...

Polina Edmunds had no time to grow into becoming both the future and present of U.S. women's figure skating, since that all happened in one fell swoop.Then she had to deal with growing out of the body that carried her to the top so quickly.It is no wonder...

The winter weather was warm, as expected. The "dangerous face water" — as my Tribune colleague Stacy St. Clair famously tweeted — was an unexpectedly disgusting orange. The war waited until the Olympics ended, when Russian President Vladimir...

All you needed to know about how the women's short programs went Saturday at Skate America was evident in the mixed reactions of several skaters when they had finished.
As Russia's Elizaveta Tukhtamysheva sat in the "Kiss and Cry" area, waiting...

Letdown, part 1: Jason Brown of Highland Park, excited to skate for people he knows so well he recognized individual voices cheering him, fell on his triple axel opening jump of the Skate America short program.
Letdown, part 2: At the moment when a voice...